The monkey shown to have been sent into space had light fur & a distinctive red mole over its right eye. But the monkey that returned was dark haired & had no mole."It looks like a very different monkey, the nose, the features, everything is different"

It always seemed just too cool to be real, and now the truth has come out - the hit video of a surfer being towed by a great white shark is in fact a hoax.
Yesterday we told you (with a healthy sense of cynicism) about the apparent new craze of shark ri

For conservationists, the news was exceptional. Chinese officials announced last fall that at least one South China tiger, a species not seen in the wild for more than 20 years, still roamed the country's forests.

Three months ago, few in China had heard of hunter Zhou Zhenglong, but he now has the dubious reputation of being at the centre of a monumental public hoax. The Shanxi Province peasant's photo of a critically endangered South Chinese Tiger in the wild